Bernd Fischer (diplomat)

Bernd Fischer (born May 27, 1950 in Kaiserslautern ) is a retired German diplomat .

biography

After graduating from high school , Fischer did his military service in the Bundeswehr as a temporary soldier from 1969 to 1971 and was later promoted to lieutenant in the reserve . He then studied geography and English at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg between 1971 and 1976 and completed a stay abroad at the University of Arizona from 1973 to 1974 as a Fulbright scholar . After working as a research assistant from 1974 to 1975, he passed the teaching examination for grammar schools in 1976 . After he graduated with a scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service to study abroad at the London School of Economics and was then from 1977 to 1978 trainee teacher .

In 1978 Fischer joined the diplomatic service of the Federal Republic of Germany. After completing his attaché training in 1980, he was initially employed at the embassy in Japan and then from 1983 to 1985 worked for humanitarian aid for Africa at the headquarters of the Federal Foreign Office in Bonn . During this time his doctorate he 1984 Dr. phil. at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.

Between 1985 and 1988, Fischer was advisor for disarmament and international security at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York City , before he was employed by the German delegation at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) in Vienna . After his return to Germany he was head of the office for foreign relations of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group from 1989 to 1993 . He was then Chief of Protocol and Director of overseas in the Senate Chancellery of the State of Berlin .

In 1998 he returned to the headquarters of the Federal Foreign Ministry, where he was Head of Department for Schools Abroad , Youth and Sport (Department 605) until 2001 . He then became envoy and head of the economic department at the embassy in the United States of America , before he was envoy and permanent representative of the ambassador to Japan from 2005 to 2008. After working from April to July 2008 as an ambassador and charge d'affaires ad interim at the Embassy in Croatia he found between July 2008 and February 2009, again using at the headquarters of the Foreign Ministry.

From 2009 to 2012 Fischer was the German ambassador to Croatia as the successor to the late Hans Jochen Peters . From July 2012 to June 2015 he was Consul General at the Consulate General Los Angeles, USA. Fischer has been President of the German-Japanese Society Berlin since February 2018 .

Fischer is married and has two children.

Fonts

• As editor: Between Wilhelmstrasse and Bellevue. 500 years of diplomacy in Berlin . Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-89487-312-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ambassador résumé of the German Embassy in Zagreb ( memento from February 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Federal Foreign Office.